http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/ Everything you want to know about Hotels. en-GB Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:17:00 +0000 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifhotelblogshttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/hotel-website-marketing-conference-hotel-blogs-features-as-a-speaker.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/hotel-website-marketing-conference-hotel-blogs-features-as-a-speaker.html I will be attending the Hotel Website Marketing conference in Dublin next week on Tuesday. Hotel Blogs will be speaking in front of a crowd of hoteliers and marketers. I will give my view on new emerging 3rd parties that... Conferences Guillaume Thevenot Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:17:00 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/living-with-a-travel-startup.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/living-with-a-travel-startup.html This is something that I was thinking to do for a long long time on Hotel Blogs. So what is it? Every week, I will bring to you a weekly update of the same brand new travel startup who aims... New Entrants Guillaume Thevenot Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:38 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/video-interview-with-eleanor-ford-director-and-founder-of-likecubecom.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/video-interview-with-eleanor-ford-director-and-founder-of-likecubecom.html This is new video interview I conducted in London in November during the World Travel Market 2009. It features a one to one conversation with Eleanor Ford and Ismael Juma from LikeCube, a pretty sweet technology which works on predictive... HB VCast New Entrants Guillaume Thevenot Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:12:12 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/wtm-just-an-ordinary-edition.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/11/wtm-just-an-ordinary-edition.html After 9 consecutive years visiting the World Travel Market - "WTM" for regular visitors - you can probably imagine that you can get a bit blase and bored by the same old stands and the lack of changes in the... Analysis Travel Shows Guillaume Thevenot Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:12:12 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/i-have-greenland-followers-on-hotelblogs.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/i-have-greenland-followers-on-hotelblogs.html Just checked where my followers on my Twitter account @hotelblogs are coming from - thanks to @RobertKCole for sharing this nice application, Twitter Analyser - and just discovered that I have 83 followers from Greenland !!! More than in France.... Guillaume Thevenot Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:32:00 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-show-season-3-episode-5-travel-startups-wtm-tbc.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-show-season-3-episode-5-travel-startups-wtm-tbc.html This week episode covers the competition between 10 travel startups last week on HB, World Travel Market with GetFunded Show and Travel Blog Camp. Thank you for our partner HotelsCombined for supporting The Hotel Show. If you would like to... The Hotel Show Guillaume Thevenot Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:45:00 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/twitter-cost-london-firms-325m-a-year-but-you-can-still-have-a-cigarette-break-.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/twitter-cost-london-firms-325m-a-year-but-you-can-still-have-a-cigarette-break-.html On my way to a meeting this afternoon, I was reading the free newspaper Evening Standard and noticed this article on why Twitter seems to cost millions of pounds to London firms because of lost productivity with their staff. Apparently... Guillaume Thevenot Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:51:53 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/congratulations-to-vipe-ask-the-ceo.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/congratulations-to-vipe-ask-the-ceo.html It has been an intense end of the week last week in terms of traffic and interaction with your votes and comments on the latest Ask the CEO competition to elect your favourite travel startups I have interviewed on Hotel... Ask the CEO Guillaume Thevenot Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:55:56 +0000 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/10-travel-startups-ceos-whos-your-favourite.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/10-travel-startups-ceos-whos-your-favourite.html I have conducted interviews in the last 10 weeks with 10 different CEOs with very different business models and online value proposition. Which is your favourite startup among these 10 companies in terms of usability, uniqueness, value added? In case... Ask the CEO Guillaume Thevenot Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:44:00 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-easy-life-of-being-director-of-public-relations-at-a-hotel-chain-part1.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-easy-life-of-being-director-of-public-relations-at-a-hotel-chain-part1.html I don't think we recognize enough how easier the job of Public Relations is in the 21st century. Before the emergence of blogs, video sharing sites and other social media sites, you either had to rely on a 3rd party... Analysis Guillaume Thevenot Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:15:11 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-sunday-24-all-seasons-bbc-ryanair-easyvoyages-facebook-trivago.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-sunday-24-all-seasons-bbc-ryanair-easyvoyages-facebook-trivago.html So what's happened this week... Monday: The French hotel group Accor announces the expansion of the All Seasons brand in the UK with one hotel in Southwark opening soon in London. All Seasons is the latest brand invention of Accor.... The Hotel Sunday Guillaume Thevenot Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:29:58 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-show-season-3-episode-4-abta-bedbanks-linkedin.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-show-season-3-episode-4-abta-bedbanks-linkedin.html This week episode covers ABTA rule with bedbanks and also how to use LinkedIN. Let me know what you think. Thank you for our partner HotelsCombined for supporting The Hotel Show. If you would like to sponsor The Hotel Show,... The Hotel Show Guillaume Thevenot Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:24:46 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/it-cannot-be-more-clearer.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/it-cannot-be-more-clearer.html Gary Vaynerchuk from WineLibrary explains "the value of customer is imperative..." Hopefully companies will listen. The value of each viewer/user/customer is NOT THE SAME! Gary | MySpace Videos Guillaume Thevenot Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:31:15 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/today-ask-the-ceo-features-jonathan-show-from-choosetotravelcom-located-in-malta-europe------------------1-what-problem.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/today-ask-the-ceo-features-jonathan-show-from-choosetotravelcom-located-in-malta-europe------------------1-what-problem.html Today 'Ask the CEO' features Jonathan Shaw from ChooseToTravel.com located in Malta, Europe. 1. What problem (s) your company is trying to solve? Today's travellers are looking at an average of 6-7 sites (including destination information, guides, and booking engines)... Ask the CEO Guillaume Thevenot Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/gtmc-admits-failure-when-using-linkedin-really-.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/gtmc-admits-failure-when-using-linkedin-really-.html A week has passed since my last blog post and here I am, still talking about LinkedIN. Unless this time, the best business social networking tool with 40M members worldwide gets some publicity from travel agents. But not traditional travel... Travel Web 2.0 Guillaume Thevenot Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:33:00 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/what-not-to-do-on-linkedin-if-youre-a-hotelier.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/what-not-to-do-on-linkedin-if-youre-a-hotelier.html Some smart guy sent me a LinkedIN request to be connected to me and this is the page of his/her profile. LinkedIN is for people first. If you want to build a community around your company, use the group. Don't... Web 2.0 Guillaume Thevenot Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:57:25 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-show-season-3-episode-3-hotel32-ipod-touch-blogs.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-show-season-3-episode-3-hotel32-ipod-touch-blogs.html This week episode covers the usage of the iPod Touch with the Hotel32 in Las Vegas, USA. We also give 3 tips you should think of before you start a blog for your company Let me know what you think.... Guillaume Thevenot Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:07:31 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/ask-the-ceo-9-roy-manor-ticketad.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/ask-the-ceo-9-roy-manor-ticketad.html Today 'Ask the CEO' features Roy Manor from TicketAD located in London, UK. 1. What problem (s) your company is trying to solve? TicketAD's goal is to help travel suppliers provide their customers with value added services and generate additional... Ask the CEO Guillaume Thevenot Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:30:00 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/will-you-be-there-at-the-get-funded-showwtm.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/will-you-be-there-at-the-get-funded-showwtm.html With SeedCamp09 and TechCrunch50 events just gone last month , it's time to register to the next important event to see shining entrepreneurs pitching their business in front of VCs, successful entrepreneurs, Angels investors and bank institutions. The Get Funded... Conferences Guillaume Thevenot Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:46:00 +0100 http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-sunday-23-inoqo-hotel32-w-hotels-bluesky-tri-hospitality.html http://www.hotel-blogs.com/guillaume_thevenot/2009/10/the-hotel-sunday-23-inoqo-hotel32-w-hotels-bluesky-tri-hospitality.html So what's happened this week... Monday: TRI Hospitality reveals in their latest survey in August that UK provincial cities have slashed dramatically their hotel rates in order to attract weekenders. The average room rate was around £64 / €70 last... The Hotel Sunday Guillaume Thevenot Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:40:13 +0100